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(DIR) Post #AvSPQVFbGK4EzBtGOO by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T13:49:18Z
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#DOJ Leader Suggested Violating #CourtOrders, #WhistleBlower Says#EmilBove III, a #Trump judicial nominee [& fmr Trump criminal defense atty], voiced his intent to disobey court orders as others stonewalled & misled judges, according to a complaint.#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/justice-department-emil-bove-trump-deportations-reuveni.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #AvSPkHRiIUDzxmzFU8 by MylesRyden@social.vivaldi.net
2025-06-24T13:52:49Z
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@Nonilex Of course he did.They understand that SCOTUS will eventually rubber stamp anything TFG tell them to, so there is no need to follow lower court orders.Under our current SCOTUS, the rule of law is irrelevant. Which, ironically, means they themselves are irrelevant.
(DIR) Post #AvSPlnqRKBrAjhHK4m by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T13:53:11Z
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A senior #DOJ official, #EmilBove III, told subordinates he was willing to ignore #CourtOrders in order to fulfill #Trump’s aggressive #deportation campaign, acc/to a #whistleblower complaint by a department lawyer who has since been fired.The account by the dismissed lawyer, Erez Reuveni, paints a disturbing portrait of his final 3 weeks on the front lines of the #Trump admin’s legal efforts to ship #immigrants overseas, often w/little notice or recourse.#law #felon47 #judiciary
(DIR) Post #AvSPx80eh190SfSOSe by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T13:55:14Z
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In Reuveni’s telling, #EmilBove used an expletive as he discussed disregarding court orders, & other top law enforcement officials showed themselves ready to stonewall #judges or lie to them to get their way.Reuveni’s account, which was reviewed by NYT, was filed to lawmakers & the #DOJ #InspectorGeneral on Tues, just one day before Bove is scheduled to testify before the #Senate #Judiciary Committee for a nomination to a federal appeals court.#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
(DIR) Post #AvSQ70n2OFU8xwnfqC by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T13:57:01Z
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Reuveni was a career lawyer at the #DOJ for nearly 15 years until April, when he appeared in a federal court in Maryland & expressed concern that the #Trump admin had mistakenly deported an #immigrant to a megaprison in #ElSalvador. Reuveni was put on administrative leave a day later & ultimately fired.#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
(DIR) Post #AvSQGIXLmDBac5tHMG by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T13:58:41Z
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#Trump & his aides have labeled Reuveni a disgruntled & disobedient former employee, & are likely to amplify those criticisms in response to his decision to become a #whistleblower. 🚨🚨 The filing, however, suggests a copious trail of emails, texts & phone records would support his version of events, & notes that he had diligently defended controversial policies of the first Trump admin.#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
(DIR) Post #AvSQOwdEaYNHHYlXwe by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:00:15Z
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Until now, Reuveni had stayed silent about the circumstances of his departure. A 27-page account, filed by his lawyers at the Government Accountability Project, Dana L. Gold & Andrea Meza, offers a host of new details & allegations about the inner workings of the #DOJ under #Trump.It adds that Reuveni “will continue to tell the truth in defense of the rule of law.”#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
(DIR) Post #AvSQaajZpURoqJHo4O by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:02:20Z
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In March & early April, the filing states, Reuveni “became aware of the plans of #DOJ leadership to resist court orders that would impede potentially illegal efforts to deport noncitizens, & further became aware of the details to execute those plans.”Top officials at the #JusticeDepartment & the #WhiteHouse sought to defy federal #CourtOrders “through lack of candor, deliberate delay & disinformation,” his account states.#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvSQiOSHMmCB4oupIu by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:03:46Z
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“Discouraging clients from engaging in illegal conduct is an important part of the role of a lawyer,” the account says. “Mr. Reuveni tried to do so & was thwarted, threatened, fired & publicly disparaged for both doing his job & telling the truth to the court.”A pivotal meeting occurred on March 14, when #EmilBove, a senior official in the deputy attorney general’s office, spoke bluntly about the administration’s plans.#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvSQjxQWpNQlpTqIXg by cobalt123@beige.party
2025-06-24T14:04:01Z
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@Nonilex Bery good this is coming out so quickly. Of course all this whistleblowing stuff is fake news, duh. Aaargh, when I find a non-paywall link to this story I’ll be interested to read it. Thanks for your explainer.
(DIR) Post #AvSQzln5rFmONFw9lw by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:06:54Z
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#EmilBove informed his subordinates that #Trump would soon invoke the #AlienEnemiesAct in order to rapidly fly a group of #immigrants out of the country that weekend. Two other officials in that office, James McHenry & Paul Perkins, were in attendance, as well as Reuveni’s supervisors, Drew Ensign & August Flentje, according to the #whistleblower document.#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
(DIR) Post #AvSRGbGaEy6Kekkw2i by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:09:57Z
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#EmilBove “stressed to all in attendance that the planes needed to take off no matter what,” according to Reuveni’s account. Bove then broached “the possibility that a court order would enjoin those removals before they could be effectuated.”“Bove stated that #DOJ would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’ & ignore any such order,”acc/to the account. “Mr. Reuveni perceived that others in the room looked stunned, & he observed awkward, nervous glances among people in the room.“#law
(DIR) Post #AvSRNAnz1NeMcCVr6m by ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social
2025-06-24T14:10:59Z
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@Nonilex If anyone belongs in a camp, it's this current administration.....all of themNurremburg style trials are too good and lenient for this crew😐
(DIR) Post #AvSRbv8pXbPONXIPUu by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:13:48Z
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“Silence overtook the room.”Reuveni & others were “quickly ushered out of the room,” the account says. It continues: “Notwithstanding Bove’s directive, Mr. Reuveni left the meeting understanding that #DOJ would tell #DHS to follow all court orders.”As far as Reuveni knew, “no one in DOJ leadership — in any administration — had ever suggested the Department of Justice could blatantly ignore court orders, especially with” an expletive, his account states.#law #felon47 #judiciary #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvSRh7dSW3EeZm6PwW by stepheneb@ruby.social
2025-06-24T14:14:40Z
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@Nonilex Ahh … sigh … the events you report on and summarize are often really quite horrible — and I find the clarity and thoroughness in your writing calming in a strange way — because you are so profoundly sane and helpful.Thanks for all you are doing!
(DIR) Post #AvSRhro0r90flpOUmO by ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social
2025-06-24T14:14:52Z
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@Nonilex We need to toss Emil in Guantanamo or some other black site preferably in Kazakhstan or other Central Asian exotic locales lacking civil rights and tell HIM fuck you !!
(DIR) Post #AvSRlhamlrqRFj2ICm by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:15:33Z
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Mr. Reuveni’s account highlights the tensions that have been roiling the #DOJ for months, where many current & former career lawyers have come to fear that the department’s political leadership, chosen by #Trump, is engaged in a systematic effort to undermine the rule of law.A Justice Department spox did not immediately comment on Mr. Reuveni’s #whistleblower filing.#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvSRwnhIPfqlN9NCs4 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:17:35Z
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Those appointees, including #EmilBove, maintain that their goal is to end “weaponization” of the #DOJ, citing as examples of [perceived] prior prosecutorial wrongdoing the #criminal cases filed against #Trump, #Jan6 rioters & other *conservatives* who claim to have been unfairly targeted.#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
(DIR) Post #AvSS5Pm2jGwNmVhXPM by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:19:08Z
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To many of the thousands of lawyers who work in the #DOJ, those claims ring as a hollow rationalization for its leadership’s willingness to use the #criminal #justice system to pursue a vengeful right-wing agenda.Already, hundreds of DOJ lawyers have quit rather than follow the course being set by the #Trump admin. Scores of others have been demoted or fired.#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
(DIR) Post #AvSSItuRzsP10g43Zw by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:21:33Z
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Reuveni’s experience has elicited major concern within the rank & file of the #DOJ, as many current & former department lawyers believe he was placed in an impossible position — ordered to ignore or mislead the courts, which is a potentially career-ending violation of #legal #ethics.#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvSSNHipP8iu1OicE4 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:22:22Z
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Reuveni’s account describes 3 instances in which senior #DOJ officials engaged in wrongdoing by ignoring #CourtOrders, presenting legal arguments w/no basis in #law, misrepresenting facts to the courts, & directing him in one instance to misstate facts in violation of his “legal & ethical duties as an officer of the court.”#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvSSadDEoZRARCJ4wS by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:24:46Z
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One of those cases involved the admin’s use of the #AlienEnemiesAct on March 15 to justify flying >100 #Venezuelans the admin declared were gang members to #CECOT, the #ElSalvador megaprison.At a hastily convened hearing that day, a federal district judge in Washington, James #Boasberg, asked Mr. Ensign if any #deportations or removals were imminent “in the next 24 or 48 hours,” prompting Mr. Ensign to respond, “I don’t know the answer to that question.”#law #felon47 #judiciary #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvSSpQ5psHNi5mtcDQ by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:27:27Z
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That answer, according to Reuveni’s account, was false. “Ensign had been present in the previous day’s meeting when #EmilBove stated clearly that one or more planes containing individuals subject to the #AEA would be taking off over the weekend no matter what,” the account states.While Ensign represented the government in court, Reuveni listened by phone, sending updates to lawyers at the Departments of #State & #HomelandSecurity.#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvST5wE4AoPMNqceDA by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:30:26Z
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At 6:44PM, Reuveni texted his supervisor, Flentje, referring to #EmilBove’s disparaging comment toward the judicial system. Flentje, his account continued, “acknowledged Bove’s comment with a joke referencing the possibility that either he or Reuveni could be fired, impliedly for reporting up their chain of command concerns that a #CourtOrder may have been violated.”#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvSTFhvwAPysx6nj5U by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:31:59Z
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About 20 minutes later, Reuveni emailed #DHS & #State Dept officials that “no one subject to #AEA in our custody can be removed.”The email continued: “And anyone in the air should be returned, unless they have” a different legal authorization for #deportation. Lawyers for those 2 agencies did not respond to his email.A short time later, he followed up with another email insisting, “we need to address this asap to avoid contempt,” but again, received no response.#law #judiciary #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvSTKgRT8iDBm5vFzs by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:32:59Z
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Behind the scenes, government lawyers struggled to make sense of how to proceed given their vague instructions. Over the next day, his account states, “it became clear to Mr. Reuveni” that the Departments of #State & #HomelandSecurity “were receiving contrary directions from someone else to take actions in violation of court orders.”#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvSTTF0CWsuXHIFTiS by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:34:33Z
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According to an email Mr. Reuveni received from Yaakov Roth, the acting assistant attorney general, “Bove had advised #DHS that under the court order it was permissible to deplane individuals on the flights that departed US airspace” before Judge #Boasberg’s written order appeared on the court docket.#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvSTc1N2a4Ppbf7OqG by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:36:13Z
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On March 17, Judge #Boasberg instructed the government to explain when the planes departed. After that order, Mr. Reuveni was told by his superiors “that leadership at #DOJ were reporting ‘down the chain’ that the government was not going to answer the court’s questions about anything that happened before 7:26PM on March 15, & so not to provide information about when the flights took off.”#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvSThq3LZYA8F7gGlU by dangrsmind@sfba.social
2025-06-24T14:37:13Z
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@Nonilex Just like his previous term, many of his underlings will face criminal charges and lawsuits. Trump will walk away clean.
(DIR) Post #AvSTlHQmEqSu1THUMC by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:37:54Z
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As the admin continued to stonewall the judge, Mr. Reuveni found it increasingly difficult to get any answers from his bosses, or the agencies he was representing in court, according to his account.Those difficulties only increased after the administration sent 17 #immigrants, which it described as violent criminals & gang members, first to a US #military facility in #GuantánamoBay, & then #ElSalvador.#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvSTsa2fRPLPlsU8Aa by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:39:11Z
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Those detainees were flown there by #military planes, which alarmed Mr. Reuveni because #CourtOrders seemed to clearly bar such removals. Mr. Reuveni’s account notes that he was given an elevated title & responsibilities in March by his superiors, & received commendations from his supervisors during the first #Trump admin.#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
(DIR) Post #AvSU4QgQ3xGwDijF2G by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:41:10Z
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By April, however, Reuveni was increasingly at odds with his bosses, & seemingly frozen out of some of the discussions about how to handle the growing legal problem despite his senior role in the dept’s Office of #Immigration Litigation.“The evidence demonstrates,” his account summarizes, “that senior #DOJ leadership withheld information” from its own lawyers, & provided contrary instructions to other agencies, “which resulted in removals in violation of a court order.”#law #judiciary #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvSUC7hIXGOreZoB84 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:42:43Z
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Reuveni’s account asserts that a third illegal order came in the case of #KilmarAbregoGarcia, the mistakenly deported #immigrant in Maryland who was sent to #ElSalvador on one of the March 15 flights despite a judge’s prior ruling that he should not be sent there.At a court hearing, Reuveni made headlines when he agreed with an earlier admission from the admin that Abrego Garcia’s removal had been a mistake.#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvSUQJGoIy5pbGBS1A by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:45:19Z
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In a phone call afterward, Ensign, stating that his questions “were prompted by the White House,” asked Reuveni why he had not argued in court that #KilmarAbregoGarcia was a terrorist, acc/to the account.Reuveni replied that no evidence had been found to support such a claim, nor did any of the #DOJ’s prior court briefs make that assertion. He added that declaring someone a #terrorist did not suddenly nullify whether someone was entitled to #DueProcess.#law #felon47 #judiciary #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvSUf09tdwrYfcxIDg by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:47:59Z
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The next day, Reuveni was told he should sign an appeal brief making the terrorism claim against #KilmarAbregoGarcia.Reuveni’s lawyers say he resisted, arguing that the #law does not allow advocates to make new factual claims, which he saw as “contrary to law, frivolous, & untrue.”That led to a final standoff with his supervisor, Flentje, who told him “he should sign the brief & that he had signed up for the responsibility to do so.”#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvSUgqzwfmEYq4BTAu by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-24T14:48:18Z
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Reuveni responded, “I didn’t sign up to lie.”He was placed on administrative leave hours later, & fired the next week.#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvSVEUauTZflCUVvlI by SueDiOh@mastodon.social
2025-06-24T14:54:19Z
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@Nonilex #ImpeachPamBondi
(DIR) Post #AvSWu3LgGTjioflvyy by jwcph@helvede.net
2025-06-24T15:13:03Z
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@Nonilex important perspective: This person is now also an anti-democracy fascist - because the only way to escape accountability for this is to hang on to despotic power indefinitely & prevent the judiciary from ever working again.
(DIR) Post #AvShst36AkVK4vj8Vs by huntingdon@mstdn.social
2025-06-24T17:16:07Z
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@Nonilex Naming Emil Bove to a federal circuit court judgeship is like putting Al Capone in charge of the FBI.
(DIR) Post #AvSiPewzbwzzuQUx6m by Npars01@mstdn.social
2025-06-24T17:22:00Z
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@Nonilex The fate of John Eastman should be a cautionary tale.https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/17/california-court-john-eastman-disbarment-00411266https://www.salon.com/2025/06/18/with-disbarment-decision-john-eastmans-downfall-continues/https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-01-23/column-meet-the-architect-of-trumps-attack-on-birthright-citizenship-a-california-lawyer-facing-disbarmentJeffrey Clark is asking himself:Is Trump worth losing a career over? Is MAGA worth dying for? Trump can't find corrupt sinecures for all of them. Trump tends to forget they exist after their utility ends.https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/politics/jeffrey-clark-trump-law-licensehttps://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/01/jeffrey-clark-law-license-suspension-00172320https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/02/26/trump-to-name-embattled-ex-enviro-lawyer-for-top-regs-job-00206312
(DIR) Post #AvSilNMNh14piwjEYK by huntingdon@mstdn.social
2025-06-24T17:25:58Z
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@Nonilex This is why Pam Bondi tried to insert her brother into being in charge of the DC Bar. It shares responsibility for disciplining errant lawyers practicing at Main Justice.
(DIR) Post #AvSxpDlmn1NQS1u3PM by huntingdon@mstdn.social
2025-06-24T20:14:45Z
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@Nonilex A judicial nominee's pledge to violate federal court orders -- on behalf of the DoJ and the USG -- would ordinarily lead to the failure of their nomination and one or more complaints to that failed nominee's local bar association.
(DIR) Post #AvTlHyTzbJPVBuv95E by cdarwin@c.im
2025-06-25T05:28:57Z
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@Nonilex #EmilBove III, a #Trump judicial nominee [& fmr Trump criminal defense atty], voiced his intent to disobey court orders as others stonewalled & misled judge@mastoreaderio unroll please
(DIR) Post #AvZA3gLDisWNW5tmWe by indyradio@kafeneio.social
2025-06-27T20:00:04Z
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@Nonilex by the by - it has been a while since I heard "mulligan" used. lol